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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=October 2022}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = The Hon.
| name             = Gustave Benjamin Boyer
| honorific-suffix = 
| smallimage       = Gustave Benjamin Boyer.jpg
| imagesize        = 
| office1          = [[Senate of Canada|Senator]] for [[List of Quebec senators#Rigaud|Rigaud, Quebec]]
| appointed1       = [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]]
| predecessor1     = [[Arthur Boyer]]
| successor1       = [[Lawrence Alexander Wilson]]
| term_start1      = March 11, 1922
| term_end1        = December 2, 1927
| constituency_MP2 = [[Vaudreuil-Soulanges (electoral district)|Vaudreuil-Soulanges]]
| parliament2      = Canadian
| predecessor2     = 
| successor2        = [[Joseph-Rodolphe Ouimet]]
| term_start2      = 1917
| term_end2        = 1921
| constituency_MP3 = [[Vaudreuil (electoral district)|Vaudreuil]]
| parliament3      = Canadian
| predecessor3     = [[Henry Stanislas Harwood]]
| successor3       = 
| term_start3      = 1904
| term_end3        = 1917
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1871|11|29}}
| birth_place      = [[Saint-Laurent, Quebec]]
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1927|12|02|1871|11|29}}
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| party            = [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]
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'''Gustave Benjamin Boyer''' (November 29, 1871 &ndash; December 2, 1927) was a [[Canadian]] journalist and politician.

Born in [[Saint-Laurent, Quebec]], the son of Benjamin Boyer and Angeline Latour, Boyer educated at the College of St. Laurent. He was official lecturer on agriculture in the Province of Quebec and contributed  on agricultural questions for the ''La Patrie'' and ''Le Canada''. He was first elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]] for the electoral district of [[Vaudreuil (electoral district)|Vaudreuil]] in the [[1904 Canadian federal election|general elections of 1904]]. A [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]], he was re-elected in [[1908 Canadian federal election|1908]], [[1911 Canadian federal election|1911]], [[1917 Canadian federal election|1917]], and [[1921 Canadian federal election|1921]]. In 1922, he was called to the [[Senate of Canada]] representing the [[senatorial division]] of Rigaud, Quebec on the advice of [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Mackenzie King]]. He served until his death in 1927. He was also mayor of [[Rigaud, Quebec]] in 1907, 1913–1916, and 1918–1919.

==Electoral record==
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{{1911 Canadian federal election/Vaudreuil}}
{{1917 Canadian federal election/Vaudreuil—Soulanges}}
{{1921 Canadian federal election/Vaudreuil—Soulanges}}

==References==
* {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=13582}}
* [https://archive.org/details/canadianparliame00montuoft The Canadian Parliament; biographical sketches and photo-engravures of the senators and members of the House of Commons of Canada. Being the tenth Parliament, elected November 3, 1904]

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[[Category:Liberal Party of Canada MPs]]
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[[Category:20th-century mayors of places in Quebec]]
[[Category:Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec]]
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[[Category:20th-century members of the Senate of Canada]]


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